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2nd International Workshop on Adaptive Robotic Ecologies (ARE'13), at AmI
2013

We would like to welcome you to participate and contribute to the 2nd
International Workshop on Adaptive Robotic Ecologies (ARE'13), at AmI 2013
: Fourth International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Dec 3,
2013 - Dec 5, 2013, Dublin, Ireland.

Robotic ecologies are networks of heterogeneous robotic devices (sensors,
actuators and automated home appliances) pervasively embedded in everyday
environments, where they cooperate in applications such as Ambient Assisted
Living.

The goal of ARE'13 (http://are13.ucd.ie) is to bring together
state-of-the-art contributions describing solutions that enable robotic
ecologies to be self-learning, self-configuring, and self-adapting, in
order to increase their adaptability, and reduce the amount of preparation
and pre-programming required for their deployment in real world
applications.


The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Algorithms and theories for cooperation and configuration in robotic
ecologies;

- Evaluation of adaptive robotic ecologies;

- Learning techniques to adapt to changes in the environment and in user
needs;

- Self-configuration supporting open, heterogeneous and computationally
constrained systems;

- Adaptation for people-centric robotic ecologies, personalization and user
interaction;

- Concrete examples of adaptive robot ecologies to AmI applications

- Software engineering and integration issues;

- Current efforts in the standardization of interfaces (SW, HW) for the
integration in AmI environments of commercial devices (sensors, actuators,
robots).

PUBLICATION

Proceedings of the workshops will be published by Springer under the
*Communications
in Computer and Information Science
(CCIS)*<http://www.springer.com/series/7899>serie (
http://www.springer.com/series/7899). All accepted contributions will also
be published on the workshop webpage.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Papers are solicited from different research areas, including ambient
intelligence, robotics, wireless sensor networks, and agent systems.
Contributions will be reviewed for quality and relevance to the workshop?s
theme and should present substantial novel research achievements.
Theoretical and applied papers, as well as papers that capture best
practices and lessons learned from field studies and EU projects are
encouraged.
Papers presenting preliminary results may be accepted in the form of
extended abstracts.

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Papers should be up to 14 pages in the CCIS one-column page format, and
should be submitted in pdf format through
*EasyChair*<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=are2013>(
https://www.easychair.org/account/si...i?conf=are2013)
Authors should apply Springer conference paper templates, which can be
found in the *author?s instruction
page*<http://www.springer.com/computer/lnc...164-6-793341-0>(
http://www.springer.com/computer/lnc...164-6-793341-0)
Submitting a contribution is not a prerequisite to participation in the
workshop and the discussion sessions.

SCHEDULE

Submission deadline: September 1st, 2013

Notification of acceptance: September 20th, 2013

Workshop date: December 3rd, 2013

ORGANIZERS

This workshop is organized under the auspices of the
*RUBICON*<http://fp7rubicon.eu/>project (
http://fp7rubicon.eu), with is funded by the European Union Seventh
Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013, ICT-2009.2.1) under grant agreement
No.269914.


* Mauro Dragone,
University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland

* Alessandro Saffiotti
AASS Cognitive Robotic Systems Laboratory, University of Orebro, Sweden

* Arantxa Renteria
Health and Quality of Life, Tecnalia, Bilbao, Spain

* Stefano Chessa
Computer Science Department, University of Pisa, Italy

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Up-to-date information about this Workshop will be posted on the
web site: http://are13.ucd.ie

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4th International Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages and models for ROBotic systems DSLRob-13


Website: http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/public/DSLRob2013
November 8th 2013 at Tokyo (Japan), after the IROS 2013 conference.


The Fourth International Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages and
Models for Robotic Systems (DSLRob'13) will be held November 8th 2013
at Tokyo (Japan), just after the IROS 2013 conference.

Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) and Model-driven Software Development
(MDSD) are emerging areas of interest in the robotics research
community. Both have been instrumental for resolving complex issues in
a wide range of domains, including e.g. distributed and modular
robotics, control, and vision. The goal of this workshop is to bring
together robotics researchers working with DSLs and models in
different aspects of robotics.

# Description

A domain-specific language (DSL) is a programming language dedicated
to a particular problem domain that offers specific notations and
abstractions that increase programmer productivity within that domain.
Models offer a high-level way for domain users to specify the
functionality of their system at the right level of abstraction. DSLs
and models have historically been used for programming complex
systems. However recently they have garnered interest as a separate
field of study. Robotic systems blend hardware and software in a
holistic way that intrinsically raises many crosscutting concerns
(concurrency, uncertainty, time constraints, ...), for which reason,
traditional general-purpose languages often lead to a poor fit between
the language features and the implementation requirements. DSLs and
models offer a powerful, systematic way to overcome this problem,
enabling the programmer to quickly and precisely implement novel
software solutions to complex problems within the robotics domain.

The main objective of this workshop is a cross-pollination of ideas
between robotics researchers in DSLs and models from different
domains. DSLs and models are key elements in many robotic systems
presented at leading conferences such as IROS and ICRA, but the
domain-centric structure of the typical robotics conference does not
offer a natural venue for exchange of ideas regarding DSLs and models.

This workshop will focus on the use of Domain-Specific Languages and
Models for Robotic Systems. Topics that are of special interest
include:

- domain-specific languages to express reactive behaviors, composition
of behaviors, motion description languages (MDL),
- domain-specific languages to express uncertainty, modelling of
physical system, real-time constraints,
- domain-specific languages to describe cooperative robotics and
modular robotics systems,
- tools support and frameworks for describing and manipulating DSLs,
models and meta-models for robotic systems,
- code generation and code transformation for robotics systems,
variability in robotic systems,
- meta-models to express robotic specific structures and best practices,
- frameworks to combine DSLs in an uniform manner,
- benchmarks to compare use of DSL vs general-purpose programming, and
programming languages in the context of robotic systems, visual
languages for robots, languages to teach robotics.

The intended audience is those robotics researchers throughout the
entire robotics community who use DSLs and models as a key component
of their robotics software infrastructure. In addition, robotics
researchers with an interest in modern approaches to solving complex
software-related issues will find the workshop inspirational.

# Relation to previous workshops organized

This is the fourth installment of this workshop: the first edition
DSLRob 2010 was held at IROS 2010, the second edition DSLRob 2011
collocated with IROS 2011 and third edition DSLRob 2012 was organized
during SIMPAR 2012.

The proceedings of the previous editions are freely available on arXiv:
- DSLRob 2010 proceedings: http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.4563
- DSLRob 2011 proceedings: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3308
- DSLRob 2012 proceedings: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5082

# Submissions guidelines

All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical
quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. At least two reviews
for each paper will be conducted. All workshop papers should be
submitted electronically in PDF format through the EasyChair website
and should use the IEEE US letter format.

We are looking for submission of full research papers and experiences
reports (up to 8 pages) and work in progress submissions (up to 4
pages). Please create your account on Easy Chair website as soon as
possible if you intend to submit a paper:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dslrob2013

# Journal Special Issue

After the workshop, authors of the last previous DSLROB editions since
2010 will be asked to submit an extended version of their papers to
the following journal special issue: Special issue of Journal of
Software Engineering for Robotics http://www.joser.org/

# Important dates

- Sept 1, 2013 Due date for workshop papers submission
- Sept 20, 2013 Final acceptance
- Nov 8, 2013 Workshop date

# Organization committee

- Christian Schlegel, Fakult?t Informatik, Hochschule Ulm, Germany
- Ulrik P. Schultz, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Serge Stinckwich, UMI UMMISCO (IRD/UPMC), France

# Program committee

- Alexandre Bergel, University of Chile, Chile
- Geoffrey Biggs, AIST, Japan
- Mirko Bordignon, Digipack Industrial Automation, Sanovo Technology Group
- Herman Bruyninckx, University of Leuven, Belgium
- Saadia Dhouib, CEA LIST, France
- Hugo A. Garcia, University of Leuven, Belgium
- Issa Nesnas, JPL Robotics, USA
- Cyril Novales, PRISME, France
- Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA
- Henrik Nilsson, University of Nottingham, UK
- Patrick Martin, York College of Pennsylvania, USA
- Walid Taha, Halmstad University, Sweden
- Cristina Vicente-Chicote, University of Cartagena, Spain
- Mikal Ziane, LIP6, France

--
Serge Stinckwich
UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC)
Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk
http://doesnotunderstand.org/

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ROBOT 2013: FIRST IBERIAN ROBOTICS CONFERENCE


ROBOT 2013: FIRST IBERIAN ROBOTICS CONFERENCE will follow the three
biannual Workshops that started in Zaragoza (2007), and continued in
Barcelona (2009) and Sevilla (2011). These previous and successful
events, both from the viewpoint of their scientific and technical
quality, and for the important number of attending delegates, have
motivated in organizing ROBOT 2013 initiative. ROBOT 2013's main goal is
to continue the precedent efforts in showing the robotic research and
development of new applications. While first events were focused on the
Spanish activity, in this edition the core is extended to the Iberian
Peninsula.

ROBOT 2013 will be an excellent forum for mutual exchange of knowledge
among industry and academia and will foster a better co-operation to
face the challenges posed by Horizon 2020.

As President of the Organizing Committee, it is my pleasure to invite
you to participate in ROBOT 2013.

I am looking forward to receive you in Madrid next November 2013.

Manuel A. Armada
President Organizing Committee*

*Important Dates

- Deadline for contribution submission: 19th of July, 2013
- Acceptance notification: 9th of August, 2013.
- Final version submission: 6th of September, 2013
- ROBOT 2013 conference: 28th and 29th of November, 2013.

Topics and venue

ROBOT 2013 will pay special attention to advances in Robotics, so it is
foreseen contributions presenting not only concepts and methodologies
but also their practical validation and experimental testing in the lab
and/or in the field. This conference welcomes paper submissions from
topics included but not limited to:

- mobile robots
- personal and service robotics
- assistive robotics
- medical robots
- locomotion
- biomimetic robots
- unmanned aerial systems
- agricultural robotic systems
- marine robotics
- hybrid intelligent systems
- multi-agent systems
- cooperative systems
- cognitive systems
- distributed & networked systems
- decision support systems
- localization, mapping and navigation




Alberto Sanfeliu sanfeliu@iri.upc.edu

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Call for Papers for the 2013 ICCV Workshop on Underwater Vision

Sydney, Australia
Dec 8, 2013
http://marine.acfr.usyd.edu.au/iccv13uv

We would like to invite you to participate and contribute to the
Underwater Vision Workshop in conjunction with the 2013 IEEE
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV?13), Dec 1-8 2013,
Sydney, Australia.



Scope:
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There are many challenges associated with vision based mapping,
localization and object recognition under water. Natural scene
illumination is often poor, and there is usually little regular
structure with which to delineate objects. The strong wavelength
dependent attenuation of light underwater limits the effective
range of optical imaging and affects colour balance. These and
other challenges present unique difficulties when working with
underwater imagery.

Despite these challenges, there have been many recent advances
in the development of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and
in the processing of imagery captured by these platforms. These
advances have implications in a diverse range of application areas,
including marine ecology, archaeology, geology as well as industry
and defence. This workshop will focus on aspects of underwater-related
vision processing, including but not restricted to:

- mapping, localization and SLAM,
- structure-from-motion and visual odometry,
- object discovery and recognition,
- scene understanding, and semi-supervised and unsupervised learning.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together practitioners from the
robotics community with those working on underwater imaging and in
targeted application domains to consider the challenges of underwater
robotics and image processing and to identify opportunities for
collaborative research in this area.



Important Dates:
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Paper Submission: 7 Sep 2013
Paper Notification: 7 Oct 2013
Workshop Date: 8 Dec 2013



Submission:
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ICCV format, max. 6 pages, please use the template available at:
http://www.iccv2013.org/author_guide...php#formatting
Accepted contributions will be given an oral presentation at the workshop.



Program Committee:

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Greg Dudek (McGill)
Matthew Dunbabin (CSIRO)
David Kriegman (UCSD)
Oscar Pizarro (USYD)
Yoav Schechner (Technion)
Stefan Williams (USYD)


Organizers:
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Australian Centre for Field Robotics @ The University of Sydney:
Navid Nourani-Vatani
Ariell Friedman
Daniel Steinberg
Oscar Pizarro
Stefan Williams

For questions, please contact navid.nourani-vatani@sydney.edu.au
For more information and to access public underwater data sets visit:
http://marine.acfr.usyd.edu.au/iccv13uv/

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Call for contributions to Springer Cosmos Series Book on Metrics of sensory motor integration in robots


Dear all,
we are editing a book on Metrics of sensory motor integration in
robots and animals to appear in Springer's COSMOS series,
http://www.springer.com/series/8354.
It will be a survey and reference book on the
topic.
You are kindly invited to submit a book chapter.
As you know Cosmos is the cognitive topic twin book series to the
robotics topic STAR, so it is an excellent venue to publish your work and ideas.
The deadline for full chapters is November 15th. Acceptance will be
notified to successful contributions by December 15th. Final version
will be due by January 31st.
More details in the stub of the book below.
Feel free to contact any of us for any question which may arise
We look forward your contributions
All the best

Fabio. Angel, Elena and John


Title: Metrics of sensory motor coordination and integration in robots
and animals
Subtitle:
How to measure the success of bio-inspired solutions with respect to
their natural models, and against more ?artificial? solutions?

Bio-inspiration, in various forms, is a popular trend in robotics
research. The methodologies adopted in Robotics are sometimes coarser
than those used by natural sciences such as
neurophysiology/neurosciences and biology to quantitatively evaluate
the performance in similar classes of functions. Also for those kinds
of considerations, the interest in experimental methodologies
increased dramatically within the robotics community, both from
researchers, aiming at more grounded and fast research advancement,
and from public funding agencies, according to the idea that good
experimental activities could reduce the gap between research and
industrial applications.
Some projects have been funded by the European Commission and a series
of workshops have been held in the latest years. Indeed, the
definition of proper benchmarking procedures has become a key
requisite of European project funding application.
The aim of this book is to discuss these fundamental issues in the
context of a specific subset of problems: namely, the metrics for
sensory motor coordination in Robotics/AI and Cognitive Science (also
with respect to the role of experiments) in artificial and natural
intelligent/cognitive systems, and the way the same or similar
functions are evaluated in biology, neuroscience/neurophysiology and
psychology.
We also aim to lay some foundations toward a replicable robotics
research publishing thread based on the publication of fully
replicable experiments.
This will reduce the distance from disciplines studying artificial and
natural autonomous systems.
The book has a broad interdisciplinary approach and covers some of the
more relevant issues related to the metrics of sensory motor
integration in robots and animals.
It is a widespread opinion that interdisciplinary research in
biomimetics is beneficial on both biology and engineering sides, as
engineering can provide insightful physical models of the animals and
natural cognitive systems, while biology provide inspiration to
engineering research. In particular the study of the actual modalities
of sensory motor coordination, which are the main focus of this books,
benefit and will benefit in the future from joint research involving
biologists, robotic and cognitive science researchers and
neuroscientists.
In robotics and cognitive sciences there is a clear need of more
replicable research and of objective
measurement methods and benchmarking procedures, the example coming
from other research fields is proving quite productive. A realistic
assessment of the situation forces us to recognize that there are
still gaps in the scientific modeling and understanding of important
cognitive processes in animals and their synthesis in engineering
artifacts. This makes the measuring and comparison of complex
cognitive behaviors more difficult. The contributions in this book
focus on one of the simpler animal and robot behavior: sensory motor
coordination. They are organized in four sections, addressing the main
areas of investigation in this area. In section I and II, methods for
measuring sensory motor coordination in animals, methods for measuring
sensory motor coordination in robots are described. Section III and IV
have a more theoretical nature, as in Section III, quantitative models
and mathematical tools are illustrated in detail, while Section IV
gathers more speculative contributions and position chapters.
The authors are some of the leading researcher in the biomimetics
growing areas of interdisciplinary research. As a whole this
proceeding book, originated by an IROS workshop on the same themes,
provides an insightful panorama of the ongoing work, and hopefully
inspiration for further research.
TOC?s Structure (final TOC will depend on accepted submissions to the
open call and invited chapter submissions)
Introduction (from the editors)
Section I
Engineering methods for measuring sensory motor integration and
coordination in animals
...
Section II
Engineering methods for measuring sensory motor integration and
coordination in robots
?
Section III
Quantitative Models and Mathematical Tools
?
Section IV
Ideas
IV.1 Discussion (by the editors)
...
List of topics for the open call:
* Metrics for sensory motor coordination and visual servoing
effectiveness and efficiency;
* Metrics for shared control effectiveness and efficiency;
* Benchmarking autonomy and robustness to changes in the environment/task;
*Measures of dexterity
* Scalable autonomy measurements;
* Design of Experiments in Robotics/AI;
* Execution of Experiments in Robotics;
* Comparison of experimental methodology in
neurosciences/neurophysiology and in Robotics;
* Comparison of experimental methodology in
neurosciences/neurophysiology and in AI;
* Comparison of experimental methodology in Biology and in Robotics;
* Comparison of experimental methodology in Biology and in AI;
* Success metrics in bioinspired Robotics;
* Experimental scenarios to evaluate performance, demonstrate
generality, and measure robustness in robots and animals;
* Well grounded experimental methods to compare artificial and natural
cognitive systems;
* Performance metrics based on Shannon entropy related measures;
* Performance metrics based on dynamical systems methods;
* Performance modeling of the relationship between a task and the
environment where it is performed
* Relationship between benchmarking and replication of experiments with robots;
* Reporting experiments in Robotics;
* Epistemological issues;
* Examples of Good Practice;
* Evaluation of Experimental Robotics Work;
* Proposals for Promotion of Good Experimental Work;


--
CONFIDENTIAL AND PRE-DECISIONAL INFORMATION


Fabio P. Bonsignorio

IEEE Senior Member

Ceo
Heron Robots s.r.l.
Via R.Ceccardi 1/18
I-16121 Genova
Italy
www.heronrobots.com

Founding Past Director
euRobotics aisbl

Professor
Banco de Santander Chair of Excellence in Robotics
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Edificio Agust?n de Betancourt, Despacho 1.3B01
Avda. Universidad, 30
28911 Legan?s
Spain

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The SPIE conference on
Image-guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling conference

The call for papers is located here: www.spie.org/mi104

Conference location and time: San Diego, California, Feb 15-20, 2014

Some facts and reflections from me on the conference:

-Siemens is sponsoring a Young Scientist award. Details at the call for papers link above.

-The conference organizers are interested in increasing the participation of roboticists. You can find a list of program committee members at the call for papers link above.

-This conference is more applied than many alternative medical robotics forums. Many of those who attend do "rubber meets the road" clinical engineering, and spend a good deal of time in actual operating rooms.

-The conference is welcoming to new folks and to students, so if you haven't tried it yet, come on out to San Diego in February.

-The conference is cutting edge. Since acceptance decisions are based on extended abstracts and full papers are submitted just before the conference, people at SPIE are typically talking about results they obtained within the month or two prior to the conference. This is in contrast to many other robotics conferences with full paper submission, where people are talking about results they obtained 8-10 months prior to the conference. It's a different publication/discussion model that you may find to be an interesting change of pace.

-Extended abstract submissions consist of: (1) a 100-word abstract for early release, (2) a 250-word abstract, and (3) a one to four page supplemental file. Full manuscripts associated with accepted abstracts will be due Jan 20, 2014.

So in summary, I hope that you will consider submitting your work to SPIE this year. If you are a medical robotics researcher who likes seeing practical applications of image-guided surgery and robotics in operating rooms, I believe you will thoroughly enjoy SPIE.

Sincerely,
Robert (Bob) Webster
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Vanderbilt University

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The 6th Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction
at ACM ICMI 2013, Sydney, Australia

December 13, 2013
Papers deadline: August 31, 2013
www: http://cs.uef.fi/gazein2013

Invited speaker: Julien Epps ? University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia

Eye gaze is one of the most important aspects in understanding and
modeling human-human communication, and it has great potential also in
improving human-machine and robot interaction. In human face-to-face
communication, eye gaze plays an important role in floor and turn
management, grounding, and engagement in conversation. In human-computer
interaction research, social gaze, gaze directed at an interaction
partner, has been a subject of increased attention.

This is the sixth workshop in Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine
Interaction, and in the past we have discussed a wide range of issues
for eye gaze relevant to multimodal interaction; technologies for
sensing human attentional behaviors, roles of attentional behaviors as
social gaze in human-human and human-machine/robot interaction,
attentional behaviors in problem-solving and task-performing, gaze-based
intelligent user interfaces, and evaluation of gaze-based UI. In
addition to these topics, this workshop will focus on eye gaze in
multimodal communication, interpretation and generation. Since eye gaze
is one of the primary communication modalities, gaze information can be
combined with other modalities to compensate meanings of utterances or
to serve as a stand-alone communication signal.

GazeIn'13 aims to continue in these lines and explore the growing area
of gaze in intelligent interaction research by bringing together
researchers from domains of human sensing, multimodal processing,
humanoid interfaces, intelligent user interfaces, and communication
science. We will exchange ideas to develop and improve methodologies for
this research area with the long-term goal of establishing a strong
interdisciplinary research community in ?attention aware interactive
systems?.

This workshop solicits papers that address the following topics (but not
limited to):

? Technologies and methods for sensing and interpretation of gaze and
human attentional behaviors
? Eye gaze in multimodal generation and behavior production in
conversational humanoids
? Empirical studies of attentional behaviors
? New directions for gaze in Multimodal interaction
? Evaluation and design issues for using eye gaze in multimodal interfaces

Please see the online CfP for a full list of topics
(http://cs.uef.fi/gazein2013/call-for-papers)

SUBMISSION INFORMATION
There are two categories of paper submissions.
Long paper: The maximum length is 6 pages.
Short paper: The maximum length is 3 pages.

At least three members of the program committee will review each
submission. The accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings. Best papers will be selected for an inclusion to a special
issue in a journal. Submitted papers should conform to the ACM
publication format. For templates and examples follow the link:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html

Please submit your papers using https://precisionconference.com/~icmi13j

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission due: August 31, 2013
Notification of acceptance: September 20, 2013
Camera-ready due: October 10, 2013
Workshop date: December 13, 2013

ORGANIZERS
Roman Bednarik ? University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Hung-Hsuan Huang ? Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Kristiina Jokinen ? University of Helsinki, Finland
Yukiko Nakano ? Seikei University, Japan

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Roman Bednarik http://cs.uef.fi/~rbednari
School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland

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RHEA-2014:: 2nd Int. Conf. on
Robotics and associated high-technologies and equipment for agriculture and forestry

Conference leaflet
Download the RHEA-2014 leaflet here
<http://www.car.upm-csic.es/fsr/gds/R...14-leaflet.pdf> .

Welcome to RHEA-2014
RHEA-2014 is the second international conference being fostered by the
project RHEA <http://www.rhea-project.eu/> (Robot fleets for highly
effective agriculture and forestry management, FP7-NMP 245986).
RHEA-2014 aims to disseminate the RHEA project results and, at the same
time, to bring together academicians, researchers, engineers,
developers, students and companies to share and discuss both theoretical
and practical knowledge on sustainable crop protection, weed control,
automation and robotics in agriculture and precision farming.

Venue
RHEA-2014 will be held at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC),
Institute of Agricultural Sciences (CSIC-ICA) and the School of
Industrial Engineers (ETSII) of the Polytechnic University of
Madrid (UPM) all of them located in the center of Madrid. This city has
an air of modernity, which contrasts with its important old town and its
cultural traditions. Madrid is a city of nice monuments with places of
interest such as the medieval center dating back to the Habsburg Empire
and the Prado Museum.

Event structure
RHEA-2014 is a special international conference that provides to
attendees the opportunity of being present at the final RHEA project
demonstration. The first day will be devoted to the RHEA project: final
demo and technical tutorials. The second and third days will have the
format of an international conference focused on presentations and
discussions on new trends in mobile robotics, perception and actuation
for agriculture.

Conference topics
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Automated machines for weed control and crop protection
- Sensing in precision agriculture
- Remote sensing in precision agriculture and forestry
- GNSS, guidance systems and machinery
- Robotics and new technologies
- Fleets of robots and new vehicles for precision agriculture
- Planning and fleet management
- Management, modeling and decision support systems
- ICT technologies in precision agriculture and forestry
- Emerging issues in precision agriculture and forestry

Provisional programme
May 21, 2014 - FINAL REVIEW/FINAL DEMO
- RHEA final review (at UPM-ETSII): Welcome | Project objectives |
Project executive summary | Description of demos
- RHEA final demonstration (at CSIC-ICA experimental farm): Trip to
CSIC-ICA experimental farm by bus | Break | RHEA project demonstrations
| Trip back to UPM-ETSII by bus | Lunch
- RHEA tutorial (at UPM-EII): Technical presentations of the RHEA
project | Break | Presentation of commercial products by RHEA partners

May 22, 2014 - FIRST CONFERENCE DAY (at CSIC/CSIC-ICA)
Opening session | Plenary session (1) | Break | Parallel sessions (1.1)
| Lunch | Parallel sessions (1.2) | Break | Parallel sessions (1.3) |
Gala dinner

May 23, 2014 - SECOND CONFERENCE DAY (at CSIC/CSIC-ICA)
Plenary session (2) | Break | Parallel sessions (2.1) | Closing session
| Lunch
Field afternoon: Visit to the experimental farms "La Isla" and "El Socorro"

Submission
- Abstract submission deadline (500 words): October 31, 2013
- Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2013
- Full paper submission deadline: January 15, 2014
- Communication of final acceptance: February 28, 2014
Visit the RHEA-2014 website <http://www.rhea-conference.eu/2014/> for
further information

Further publication
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version
of their papers for publication in:
- Precision Agriculture (ISSN:0168-1699)
- Industrial Robot (ISSN: 0143-991X)
- Sensors (ISSN: 01424-8220)

Registration
- Early bird fee (Before February 15, 2014): 450EUR
- Normal fee: 600EUR
(Proceedings, coffee breaks, lunches, gala dinner and programme trips
are included)



__________________________________________________ __________
CSIC

*Dr. Pablo Gonzalez de Santos* [Personal website
<http://www.car.upm-csic.es/fsr/gds/index.html>]
Head of the Field and Service Robotics Group [Group website
<http://www.car.upm-csic.es/fsr/>]
Centre for Automation and Robotics

Spanish National Research Council - (CSIC)
28500 Arganda del Rey, Madrid, Spain

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Special Issue on Calibration for Field Robotics


Special Issue Guest Editors:

Tim Barfoot (tim.barfoot@utoronto.ca), University of Toronto
Paul Furgale (paul.furgale@mavt.ethz.ch), ETH Zurich
C?dric Pradalier (cedric.pradalier@georgiatech-metz.fr), GeorgiaTech
Lorraine


Every robotic system has some set of calibration parameters -- scale
factors, sensor locations, link lengths, etc. -- that are needed for state
estimation, planning, and control. Some parameters are difficult to
measure by hand (e.g., due to the presence of sensor enclosures). Other
parameters, despite best efforts during construction, will change over the
lifetime of a robot due to normal wear and tear. It is often thought that
autonomous systems will require many complementary sensors operating in
concert, but this also means more calibration parameters to determine and
manage. In the best case, incorrect parameter values degrade performance.
In the worst case, they cause critical safety issues.

Currently we are seeing a push by researchers to tackle questions of
long-term autonomy with the goal of widely deploying robotic systems into
the service of non-experts, as driver assistance systems, as personal
assistants, and in a host of other roles. To achieve these goals,
calibration parameters will have to be determined efficiently and
maintained over the lifetime of a robot. Moreover, for the sake of safety
and security, robots will require a certain degree of introspection in
order to know when calibration parameters are no longer viable or correct.

This special issue aims to publish outstanding results focusing on the
calibration challenge in robotics, from the design of calibration tools and
systems to the long-term deployment of robotic systems with lifelong
calibration and parameter learning, for one or many sensors, from theoretic
foundations of calibration techniques to field reports on their
application. Submissions should include significant field testing on
robotic systems in real-world environments. Papers with only simulation or
laboratory results will not be considered.

Topics of interest include:
-multi-sensor calibration
-online calibration and system identification
-power-on-and-go systems
-fault detection
-observability of calibration methods
-field reports of long-term calibration
-uncertainty-aware calibration
-time synchronization

JFR encourages multimedia attachments to submissions, including media and
datasets.

Deadlines:
-first CFP: 5 August 2013
-initial submission deadline: 1 December 2013
-reviews due: 1 March 2014
-author notification: 1 April 2014
-final manuscripts for publication: 1 June 2014

[robotic]

BRASERO 2013

Event website: http://brasero.ufsm.br

The First Brazilian Workshop on Service Robotics (BRASERO 2013) will be
held at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, RS, Brazil, on September 16th
and 17th. This workshop will cover the most exciting new developments in
the robotics field and related technologies.

We are now accepting extended abstracts for review. Works should focus on
the theme of service robotics or related technologies, which include (but
is not limited to) the following topics:

Machine learning, intelligent systems, artificial intelligence, cognitive
development, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, reinforcement
learning, fuzzy sets
Computer vision, image processing, object segmentation and recognition,
face recognition, camera calibration
Feedback control, digital control, control theory
Embedded systems
Real time systems
Digital signal processing
Object manipulation and action planning
Innovations in mechanical design and materials
Mobile robotics, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), sensor fusion
Legged locomotion, biped walking
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Unmanned underwater vehicles
Humanoids
Ethics and the social implications of the advance of service robotics
Robotics applications and case studies

All submitted papers must be at most 4 pages long (including references),
and be written in English following strictly this style:
http://brasero.ufsm.br/template.rar

Submit your paper at http://brasero.ufsm.br/papers

Deadline: 16 Aug 2013 11:59:59pm BRT
Acceptance/rejection notification: 27 Aug 2013

The best works will be selected for poster and oral presentations during
the event.

Take this opportunity and send your work!

Prof. Rodrigo da Silva Guerra - OC/TC Chair of BRASERO 2013